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Martin Ingelsby Follows Father’s Footsteps into Delco Athletes Hall of Fame
The man who starred for Archbishop Carroll, then orchestrated the point at Notre Dame, and now coaches the University of Delaware men’s basketball team has found his way into the Delaware County Athletes Hall of Fame in one of the shortest timespans. Martin Ingelsby, 38, was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of…
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Sharon Hill Native the Original NFL Draft Guru
He pored over and analyzed college football’s top NFL prospects even before some professional coaches did. In the early 1980s, Bill Werndl, one of the original draft gurus, began compiling a magazine-sized pamphlet, Ourlads’ Guide to the NFL Draft, for his 44 subscribers. Today, the NFL Draft has gone “from Bill Werndl hawking 44 books in…
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Soccer for Success Helps Kick Chester’s Bad Habits
In its fourth year, Chester Upland Soccer for Success is scoring goals against the state’s “most dangerous city to live in.” “We truly believe we provide a tremendous program that is impacting kids here in Chester and the greater community,” said Founding Executive Director Brent Jacquette in a Huffington Post report by Louis Bolling. “We’ve…
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Football All-Stars to Compete in Hero Bowl Benefiting Families of First Responders
Every year, it seems our communities are shaken by the tragic loss of a brave first responder, whether he or she serves as police officers, firefighters, or emergency medical personnel. When that happens, the Delaware County community comes together to support the families and fellow first responders. Since 1977, the Hero Scholarship Committee has been…
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Strath Haven Grad, Fortune Editor Gets Scoop on Airbnb
A Fortune magazine editor who grew up with a newsroom in her Media kitchen is now in the limelight for her enterprising work that has shed light on the hotel in your guest room — the growing movement of Airbnb home or room rentals. Strath Haven High School graduate Leigh Gallagher wrote The Airbnb Story,…
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Comedy Central Orders Pilot for Aspiring Sitcom ‘Delco Proper’
A television experiment about three guys from a Delaware County lumberyard “peeking into their 30s without leaving behind the behavior of their 20s” is about to grow up on the screen, too. Comedy Central has ordered Delco Proper out of its awkward digital adolescence and into a full pilot, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report…
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Radnor Alum Scores Leadership Position in New Professional Sports League
A former three-sport athlete from Radnor High School recently scored a big career goal by joining the leadership team of a year-old professional sports league for the nation’s fastest-growing sport. Jazmine Smith has been named Director of League Diversity for the United Women’s Lacrosse League just ahead of its second-season opener in May, according to…
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Reward Renews 50-Year-Old Mystery of Murdered Boy Scout from Darby
The kind of fun-filled camping adventure that most kids dream about ended up as the worst imaginable nightmare for one Delaware County child nearly 50 years ago. Delaware County Boy Scouts woke up the morning of April 26, 1970, to find one of their own, 11-year-old Terry Bowers, stabbed to death in his sleeping bag…
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Haverford Resident, Corporate Exec Launches Book to Inspire Girls to Pursue Science Careers
Girls Know How, a book series dedicated to encouraging girls to explore the careers of their dreams, announces the release of its fourth book – Super Science Girls! – on Thursday in conjunction with Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. “While planning a career is probably not on the radar in elementary school,…
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Autism Bowling League Holds Celebratory Breakfast at MacDade Bowl
The Autism Spectrum Disorder Bowling League held a celebratory breakfast at the MacDade Bowl in Holmes earlier this month, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times. The event marked the end of the season for the league. The league members now get to enjoy a few weeks off before the action resumes again in June…
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Haverford School Grad, NFL Network Analyst to Entertain with Local Stories During Draft
Mike Mayock, an NFL Network draft analyst and Haverford School graduate, will entertain guests at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and viewers across the nation during this year’s NFL draft, writes Zach Berman for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Mayock, who is lead draft analyst at the NFL Network, has become one of the most recognizable faces…
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Harvard Takes Notice of Penn State Brandywine Scholar’s Work
In her spare time, an associate professor of English at Penn State Brandywine has discovered a key figure lost in history. Now, Kimberly Blockett will bring that figure back to life through a sabbatical year of writing. Blockett has been given fellowships by the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard University and the National…
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Popular Actor, Motivational Speaker from Newtown Square Releases Self-Help Book
Michael J. Lyons – who grew up in Newtown Square, after spending three years as a child in Paris, and graduated from Cardinal O’Hara High School – proves that you’re never too old to chase your daydreams. Lyons, an actor who plays the Speaker of the House on the popular Netflix series House of Cards, could be…
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Delco Leads State in Lives Saved with Anti-Overdose Drug
As drug overdoses surge in the state, Delaware County stands first in the line of defense against the spreading epidemic. Police throughout the county have saved more people from deadly drug overdoses than any other county in Pennsylvania, according to a Daily Times report by Kevin Tustin. The numbers total 545 of the 3,000 statewide…
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Sharon Hill’s Scenery First Brings the Revolution to Life
Working behind the scenes for nearly a year, Sharon Hill-based Scenery First has reshaped modern Philadelphia into the Revolutionary War stage it once was. This week, the world will be able to step back into history and walk on concrete floors made to “look muddy, icy, snowy, wet, or covered with human footprints or animal…
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Villanova Priest’s Life a Moving Work of Art
His artistic handiwork with fabric, thread, and stained glass is so moving that it has graced churches as far as Italy and Japan. And now, after 26 years, it is literally moving to a new home. The Rev. Richard Cannuli is downsizing to another Augustinian residence on Villanova’s campus. In the process, he will sell…
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Maine Museum Celebrates Andrew Wyeth as His Works Are Re-Evaluated
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, is celebrating the centennial of the birth of artist Andrew Wyeth with five exhibitions of his works, writes Bob Keyes for the Portland (Maine) Press Herald. Considered by many a controversial artist, the Chadds Ford native is known for his evocative and mysterious paintings of the Maine mid-coast…
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Garnet Valley Grad, Former College Baseball Player Wins Food Network Championship
Despite being the youngest of nine Food Network competitors and one of the bottom two bakers at one point, Garnet Valley High School graduate Jordan Pilarski had a secret ingredient that laid the foundation for his $50,000 win in the Spring Baking Championship: architecture. “I wanted to be an architect forever,” Pilarski said in a…
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